Does increasing age have a negative impact on six-month functional outcome after coronary artery bypass?

Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 239-244

  Hedeshian, Mohir H ^a,b   Namour, Nicole ^a,b   Dziadik, Elizabeth ^a,b   Stewart, Robert D ^a,b   Campos, Christian T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0036674205     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.125388     Document Type: Article

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